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To clarify

Its very difficult to obtain good links these days, generally they come as the result of creating good content, being a good brand and through a lot of hard work.

My suggestion would be to evaluate the sites you are dealing with, see what they are doing of interest to people, what they are doing which is different and try and exploit those areas. Promote that content through social channels, e-shots, good old fashioned word of mouth etc

Hopefully if the content is something that people find interesting, they will link to it, retweet and share it.

Admittedly, this is a simplistic overview but its the basis of what you should be doing.

If you are looking for further info, there is a ton of resource of Moz and other sites regarding content marketing, promoting content etc,

Hope that helps and good luck

Justin

have you tried the on page report card?

Assuming you have a campaign set up in the SeoMOZ web app, load up your keywords then go to

Campaign -> On-page -> report card

select the keyword and enter the url and your will get the page graded

As part of the report it shows ranking factors such as broad keyword usage, appropriate keyword usage, plus a whole host of other ranking factors.

It is best to use the domain.com/blog as the link juice and authority picked up by your blog will be passed in part to the root domain, therefore increasing you domain authority etc

If you take the subdomain route the link juice and authority doesn't get passed and the blog is treated as an independent sites in Google.

Therefore i'd go domain.com/blog every day of the week

Its not really bad, but there is every chance it will affect your rankings as google will not know which page is dominant and in turn will not know which version it should show to searchers

the best method of resolving the issue is to use the rel=canonical tag as this allows you to tell google which page is the dominant version

see article here for more details:

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Yes I use it quite a lot, its a fantastic tool.

There are many ways you can use it to grow followers, but a couple of the more straightforward ones are

Analyse your followers against your competitors, you can see which followers you have in common and more importantly people who follow them and not you

You can search users bios based on interests, so for example if you were a clothes retailer you could search for location & fashion to find potential local followers

There is a whole host of other features that allow you to find how influential your followers are, how many followers they have etc.

So all round its a real useful tool and it is extremely powerful

Rand does dig a big deeper into the features in his acquisition announcement, so that is worth a read if you haven't done so already
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seomoz-pro-member-you-now-get-followerwonk-free

I don't think the backlink profile to that page looks particularly natural and i think thats where your problem lies

OSE shows 19 backlines ahrefs shows 30, but looking through them, you have two infographitcs (with no social shares) a couple of links from .ac.uk (which are good links), directories and a number of very questionable looking links such as www.librerio.com/search/jobs/40

You also have some exact match anchor text

All of the above suggests to me that you have been hit by Panda/Penguin and the loss of links mentioned previously most likely suggests that you had questionable links that have been removed or the sites they were coming from have been shutdown (again a good indicator of poor backlinks)

To me, it looks like you are going to have to do some work on building some good links and adding a bit of content to your site to get your rankings back

Also you are on an exact match domain "graduate-jobs.com" which may be contributing

I'm sure its not what you want to hear, but I think thats where the problem most likely lies.

I hope that helps

Personally I would go for option 3, creating a /directory for the Canadian site, as the search weighting your root domain has will in part get passed onto the /directory as it is seen as another page on your root domain.

By going for a root domain or even a sub-domain you will effectively be starting your SEO efforts from scratch.

That said, there is some argument that a local domain would potentially rank better on local searches, however if you set up the directory route correctly by ensuring you have the localised address and phone number on the landing page, get inbound links to point to this page, social mentions etc that should to large degree counter that argument.

One other thing to consider is that all your SEO efforts on the /directory will help your domain authority and search weighting for the parent domain.

Rand did an great whiteboard friday a while back which explains the pro's and con's of the above options, so I would definitely check that out for a more in-depth explanation
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

Hope that helps

I've been having similar problems, although not just with the Moz toolbar, but with the whole site.

I emailed support and they are doing some changes with cookies, see below. Also the info about Firefox could be relevant, but i haven't tried as yet.

Hey Justin,

We have updated the way we handle cookies and currently if you visit the Q&A forum it will reset the remember me option. This is because Q&A is a separate application and the updated hasn't rolled out to it yet.

Another thing you will want to check those is your cookie settings. When upgrading Firefox it will reset your cookie settings to clearing them when the browser closes. Regardless, what browser you are using it is good to go check out those settings.

We will have the Q&A issue fixed soon though!

Kenny

Hope this helps

There really is no correct answer to the .co.uk/.com debate.

In truth it depends on your target audience, there is a lot of research out there which suggests that uk based users prefer .co.uk domain names

In my opinion it depends a lot on how you see the brand developing and if you think it would benefit from the global perception that a .com can offer.

If its any help to you, in the circumstances you have outlined above 9 times out of 10 I would headline with the .co.uk domain name, just make sure you either 301 or rel=canonical the .com to the .co.uk (or vice versa if you go with .com)

Hi

It depends on your preferred domain going forward, in truth 25 linking route domains isn't enough to be concerned about (unless they are from very high authority sites), so I would chose the variant which works best for you and 301 to that version.

Going forward you should build new links which point the chosen variant (www or non-www).

Justin

Using a cross domain rel canonical should fix any issues with this and mean that you as the original author get the link juice.

Rand explains the usage of cross domain canonical links in the following whiteboard friday:-

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/cross-domain-canonical-the-new-301-whiteboard-friday

hope this helps

Agreed, although you may want to consider using a canonical link instead of a 301, both methods will work, but canonical links are increasingly replacing 301's in the scenario you have outlined
See this post by seomoz
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization
hope this helps

I assume here that you are referring to a "Duplicate page Title" error showing up in the SeoMOZ web app?

The most likely issue is that you have set your campaign up as root domain (i.e. with no www prefix for the domain), Root domains are fine, however if the links in your site point to www.domain.com and domain.com this will show as a duplicate page.

This behaviour is by design of SeoMOZ as Google will also be seeing your pages as duplicates which will most likely harm your SERPs

The best solution to this problem is to 301 or rel=canonical to the preferred domain

ie: if a user types in domain.com you 301 to www.domain.com

Make sure you do this for all domains/subdomains you have pointing to your site and add the trailing slash to the domain i.e. http://www.domain.com/ as this gets added anyway.

This will stop the page reporting as duplicates, also Google will only see one version of your pages which should pack some rankings bonus' for you.

Hope that helps

Justin

I am fairly sure that if you have the keyword set up in your campaign as "Mac Windows" that the SEOMoz web app looks for an exact match on those two words.

You currently have "...Windows on Mac...", if you change your title to contain the exact phrase "..Mac Windows.." that should fix that error with the report card.

In my experience Google doesn't necessarily require the keywords to be an exact match for SERPs, although in a lot of cases it helps, especially with competitive keywords like yours.

Not wanting to teach you to suck eggs, but although on-page keyword optimisation is a fundamental part of SEO it is rarely enough on its own to get you ranked top of google for competitive keywords.

Hope that helps

There is no harm in adding all of the addresses to the website, although i would certainly redirect via 301 to the master, dominant (or preferred) domain.

One of the main things you need to be careful of with multiple domains is duplicate content, Google will view the website for www.goldenstategolfandputt.com and www.goldenstategolfandputt.net as two different websites even if they are the same website but just reached via a different domain. Therefore if not addressed you would get penalised for duplicate content, to overcome this problem do either a 301 redirect or a rel=canonical to resolve this.

Also unless there is a very good reason, i would ensure from a simplicity's point of view that all linking, internal and external points to a single chosen domain as managing inbound links to multiple domains can be a real pain.

In essence, there is no problem with using multiple domains, plenty of people do it to protect their brand, to overcome misspellings, passing off etc etc.

Hope that helps

Hi Darren

The reason for this is most likely that you have internal links within your site pointing to these pages.

Most likely within the web app you have set up www.exampledomain.com as the campaign address, within the site you have a link to the homepage using and another using /index.html

[If easily done I would change your internal links all to point to the same place from a housekeeping point of view.

However, I would you should either 301 or rel=canonical the homepage to point to http://www.exampledomain.com/ making sure you add the trailing slash to the domain as this gets added anyway.

This will stop the page reporting as duplicates, also Google will only see one version of your pages so it definitely won't jeopardise SERPS, in fact it should pack some rankings bonus' for you.](/)

The following article covers the rel=canonical solution http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/c...

This one covers 301s
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/url-re...

Hope that helps

Justin

My guess would be that at some point the url structure of the site has been changed and have 301'd from the old url structure to the new one.

Have you checked the .htaccess file on the server to see if there are any redirect code in there?

Another possibility is the platform could be causing it. What platform is the site created in? If it is an off the shelf e-com system then configs can cause these kind of issues, I believe magento is a culprit of this if its not set up correctly.

Domain authority is one of the most difficult metrics to influence.

Good quality inbound links from sites with good domain authority and mozTrust is one of the biggest factors in increasing domain auth, therefore you should consider the following....

1. Build good content, i'm sure you have read it a thousand times before on here and many other forums, but good quality content and being active through social channels is by far the best and most sustainable way of building inbound links and ultimately influencing domain auth.

2. Ensure you are listed with the "good" directories such as DMoz, Yelp, Yahoo etc, these are no where near as powerful in terms of link juice as they once were, but you should still be on them.

3. Embark on a traditional link building strategy, but ensuring you don't build spammy links and ensure you have anchor text diversity (ie don't try and keyword stuff anchor text)

4. Use tools such as SEOmoz's newly acquired followerwonk to find influencers in your industry who are likely to be interested in your site and connect and interact with them to see if you can get them to link/retweet your content.

Of the above the biggest gain for the least amount of work is likely to be item 2, registering with directories, but sadly there is no magic bullet for increasing domain auth, but then again, if there was, everyone would be doing it!!

You may also want to check out the SEOmoz explanation of "what is domain authority?" for an indepth explanation of how domain auth is calculated.
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain-authority

Hope that helps

Justin

In my opinion likes/followers etc work in much the same way as click seo, the key is delivering quality not quantity. A friend of mine tried this using a similar site (5squid) and although he got the likes he generated no business from them and the new followers started disappearing after time. So in summary, yes they deliver, but I don't think they work, after all losing followers/likes is worse than having fewer genuine followers in the first place... Isn't it?

You can do it with a Crawl Test, this does assume that all pages are linked from the initial page you are crawling and is limited to to 3000 linked-to pages.

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test

The crawl test will email you a csv file with link, title and a whole host of other useful info.

Alternatively, if your site is indexed by google you could do a site search by Googling site:www.yourdomain.com

Hope that helps

Justin

Hi Matthew,

Have you tried using a rel="canonical" link? Have not tried these using Joomla, but a search on google has brought up this article that talks about using it.

http://www.joomlablogger.net/seo/joomla-seo/how-to-use-canonical-links-with-joomla-to-avoid-duplicate-content/

You can also find out information about what a canonical link is and when to use it here:-

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

hope this helps

We have also seen this problem and it can be fixed using a canonical link, as outlined in this post by seomoz

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

hope this helps

Totally agree with Igor

Definitely use a subfolder if the intention is to gain backlinks

You might want to check out a whiteboard friday that Rand did a while ago that covers the merits of using subdomain and subfolders
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday 

Firstly have a think about whether you really want to cancel your subscription, you will lose everything (all stats and reports). And the wealth of knowledge that seomoz offers.

but if you still wish to cancel your trial is 30 days and not one month. The following is from seomoz help section

How do I cancel my Subscription or Free Trial?
You can cancel your free trial any time within your first 30 days and you won't be charged. So, if you sign up on December 1st, you can cancel any time before December 30th and won't get charged. If you're already a paying customer, you can also cancel anytime! You'll remain PRO through your paid period and the account won't be renewed at the end of that paying period. You can cancel your account by logging into the site and then going to the Billing & Subscription page.

So to play it safe I would cancel on the 1st.

Hope this helps

Agree with Shane on meta robots and revisit

SEOMoz recommend that the keywords tag isn't used as it serves no SEO value, all it does is tell competitors the keywords you are trying to rank on

If you are active on Facebook, you might also want to consider using

as it gives analytics for referral traffic

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/insights/

it is always better to internally link to the version with the backslash at the end. As this is where it gets redirected to anyway.

Hi

It definitely makes sense to clean up your domain list, an extensive domain list is often time consuming to maintain and frequently the majority of the domains deliver little or no value.

I would personally take the following approach:

1. Is the domain worth having and does it represent any value to the business?
A: yes - keep it
B: no - go to question 2

2. Does the domain offer any benefit to the site in terms of link juice/domain auth/page auth etc (I would check this thru Open Site Explorer, Majestic and Ahrefs if you have access to them)
Yes - Keep it
No - got to question 3

3. Is the domain potentially harmful to the site?
.xxx domains are indexed by Google, enter the following into the Google search bar "site:*.xxx" and you will see plenty of sites. My concern would be .xxx site are targeted to porn industry, if your website has no relation to this industry Google could decide to penalise you for this in the future, so i would be very tempted to ditch/park all the .xxx domains unless there is a good reason for keeping them.

Ultimately any decision to ditch domains should be taken with caution, as once you loose a domain, you can't get it back cheaply or easily.

I hope that helps

Justin

Agree with Toms comments

If you want to tidy up this error, go through the site and make the links consistent (ie change http://domain.com/page to http://domain.com/page/ throughout and that should solve the problem.

This is particularly worth while if you share the reports with your customers as customers hate seeing errors.

Hope that helps

If you have a 301 in place it shouldn't be an issue, although if it has only recently been added, it might take a bit of time for Google to catch up. if the 301 been added recently it might explain why it is showing up with a different page auth in Open site explorer as the OSE database is only updated once a month or so

If you want to take the belt and braces approach you could always add in a rel=canonical to http://www.trophytcentral.com/

Make sure you add in the trailing slash

See here for more info
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Hope that helps

Its is unlikely it is doing your SERPs any good as Google does generally penalise duplicate content.

To solve the issue, you could add in rel=canonical tag into the duplicate pages, this will tell Google the dominant version of the content

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

If you take this approach, i would make sure that prominently on the page you include cross link to the other pages

Hi John

It appears to me that you are seeing in open site explorer "1 - 80 inbound links from XXX domains" is that correct?

If this is the case you may need to change the filter in the 3rd Dropdown from "this page" to "pages on this subdomain". Then click filter.

Now when you look at the links it should say "1-50 of #### external links" and should roughly tie up with the competitive domain analysis links.

Let me know if you get a problem.

Justin

Hi Daniel

It is possible to add labels to keywords within the SEOmoz PRO App, so you could add in the label "Top Keywords", but as far as I am aware there is no way to specifically highlight keywords or order the report by label.

You can order by top keywords, ranking improvements, declines etc but nothing that would give you the specific report you are after.

I would be a nice feature though, maybe worth suggesting it thru "request a feature"
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/forums/293194-seomoz-PRO-feature-requests

SEOMoz database of links isn't exhaustive and also is only updated once a month or so, so I wouldn't sweat it too much if the links aren't showing up in there.

You can check back links in Google Webmaster Tools, personally i would use WMT over SEOMoz for this kind of info as after all, its Google's data that determines your rankings.

Hi Jen

There are some useful blog posts on here which help with understanding the use of a canonical link listed below.

You would place the link on the duplicate content pages, and link these through to the page that you want the link juice to go to. The pages still appear from a user perspective but google does not see them.

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

You can use the seo moz crawl to see which pages are duplicates.

Hope this helps

If i hear the words Fiverr mentioned in a conversation regarding SEO, I run.

Don't do it....

have read on a couple of forums about this, seems google have been tweaking the way the reviews work, and the way it treats third party website reviews.

Here is the official word from them on their forums:

"There have been a lot of questions about reviews lately in the forum, and we wanted to address some of the more common ones. But before we dive in, keep in mind that we’re very much aware of all the issues that you’re experiencing, and we’re working hard to overhaul and improve our reviews system so that you stop experiencing these issues. Yes, it’s going to take time, and we know that can be frustrating. But we hope the work we’re putting into long-term fixes today will significantly improve your experience soon.You can also view all the information below in our Help Center.**1. Where did my reviews go?**You may have seen reviews suddenly disappear from your listing. A few reasons why that may be the case:

1. Reviews from third-party websites are no longer displayed on Google Places listings. Below the reviews by Google users, we may link “Reviews around the web” on third-party sites.
2. Reviews are removed from Google Maps because they exhibit spammy behavior. We can't share specifics about what signals we use, but our goal is to provide end-users with high-quality information they can trust and use that info to make informed decisions. We also remove reviews that violate our content policy guidelines. We know that sometimes our algorithms may flag and remove legitimate reviews in our effort to combat abuse, but believe that overall, these measures are helping to ensure that the reviews appearing on Place pages are authentic, relevant and useful. Here's our reviews posting guidelines and policy: http://goo.gl/LtFCS
3. We have data spread across multiple databases, and we bring all that information together to create your local listing. Reviews can sometimes be dropped from Place pages when we’re trying to reconcile all that information. As we mentioned at the beginning of this note: This is a known issue, and we are working to make it better.
4. There are duplicates of the business's listing, and your reviews are living on one of these duplicates.
5. Occasionally, there is a technical issue that causes Place page reviews to drop from Google Maps for a short period of time (a few days) and then reappear on your listing. This happens when we push updates to our listings database. Again, this is a known issue, and we are working to make it better.

**2. How do I know which of the above reasons is affecting my listing?**There’s not much you can do to troubleshoot this — it requires a deeper dive into our system’s backend. In the case of #4, try searching for your business's exact name or address on maps.google.com to find duplicate listings.  3. How do I get them back on my listing?There’s no way currently to quickly, easily and absolutely get your reviews back on to your listing, nor is there much our support team can do to ensure they get reinstated. If we dropped them during a reconciliation process, you’ll see them reappear after a few days. Fixing this is a priority for us, and we’re working on long-term solutions to resolve most of these cases. If you see your reviews on a duplicate listing, we can try to merge the duplicates back in to one listing. Two things to note: 1) It takes several weeks to merge listings, and 2) There is no guarantee that merging the listings will bring the reviews back. Contact support using this form: Select I have verified > Yes >**There is a duplicate **— give the support team a few days to get back to you, they've got a lot of tickets to work through.**4. Where are my owner responses?**Here’s the deal: Google Places allows multiple people to own a listing. So you may have claimed your account, but someone else may have claimed it before you and is still considered an “owner” of the listing. The last person to have updated the listing is considered the main owner, and only responses from that account will appear live on the listing (so, if the other owner updates the account after you had left your response, your responses will be removed from the listing). Here’s something you can do to make sure you’re the most recent owner: Go into your Places account, click to Edit your listing, don’t touch anything, and hit “Submit.” That should ping our system, to let us know you’re the most recent owner. Give it a couple days, now try again to leave a response. If you’re still not seeing the option to write a response, start a new thread here in the forum, and provide us the link to your Places listing. **5. That review is clearly fake, written by an ex-employee, etc. — how can I get it removed from my listing?**There's no guarantee we will remove it, but you can report it directly to Google Places support and we will investigate:Link to form: http://support.google.com/places/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1386120&page=ts.csSelect: I have verified > Yes > Reviews > My page features false or inappropriate reviews > Fill out the form, hit Submit, and await an e-mail response from a member of our support team. **6. Why are the reviews on my listing not related to my business? **Reviews can sometimes get reassociated to another, similarly related listing. If you’re seeing reviews on your listing that are not related to your business, please use this Help Center form to get in touch with our team, and we’ll work on getting it removed:Link to form: http://support.google.com/places/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1386120&page=ts.csSelect: I have verified > Yes > Reviews > My page features false or inappropriate reviews > Fill out the form, hit Submit, and await an e-mail response from a member of our support team. **7. One of the links in “Reviews from around the web” is wrong — it’s going to a page of reviews about an unrelated business. How do I get rid of it?**Those links are generated algorithmically, and sometimes we get it wrong. If you see an incorrect link, please use our Help Center troubleshooter to get in touch with our team, and we’ll work on getting it removed (note: it takes several weeks to fix):Link to form: http://support.google.com/places/bin/static.py?hl=en&ts=1386120&page=ts.csSelect: I have verified > Yes > Reviews > My page features false or inappropriate reviews > Fill out the form, hit Submit, and await an e-mail response from a member of our support team.**8. Why can’t my customer leave a review? **Say your customer tells you that they’ve gone to your listing, but were unable to submit a review. It’s very difficult for us to troubleshoot and investigate secondhand reports. Ask them if they’ve created an account to review on Google (they should get a prompt when they go to leave the review, and they should be logged in to their own Google account before selecting a reviews nickname). Ask them if they used the 5-star rating feature just above the review (if they haven't done this, the Publish button will be disabled and they will not be able to post the review). Ask them to try posting a response in a different browser. Ask them to wait a few minutes and try again. **9. How can I report spammy reviews? **Use the “Report as inappropriate” button next to the review to tell us you think it’s spam, and we’ll look into it. If you’re seeing a large network of spam, too many for you to individually mark each one, start a new thread in the forum. We’re looking out for those reports and investigating. **10. I’ve reported a review on my listing, but it’s still there. Why won’t you remove it? **Note that we very rarely remove reviews. You can read our removal guidelines here.**11. But none of these questions address the issue I’m experiencing?**The information above addresses almost all the issues you can experience with reviews on your listing. But we know that sometimes, new bugs can crop up. So if none of the information above applies to you, start a new thread here in the Business forum and we’ll investigate. "

Taken from here:-

https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!category-topic/business/technical-issue/mPz5bqu7ViM

Hope this helps

Other sites will be able to link to the 301'd domains and this link juice (at least the majority of it) will be passed onto the dominant domain, so i wouldn't sweat it too much,as this won't harm your SERPs (assuming the links are good).

Its just a whole load easier if you are link building that you use one domain as it keeps things a whole lot simpler!

I think your suspicion about the validity of this link answers your question.

Unless there is a good reason to keep the comment/link, i would delete it as it all sounds suspicious from what you have described.

Yes duplicate content will almost definitely be affecting your rankings and the links above seem to have identical contnet

If you are focusing on Lily Ann Cabinets why not either 301 or better still rel=canonical from the other domains to Lily Ann Cabinets

That would solve the issue with minimal work.

See article below for info on redirects
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Or this one for info on rel=canonical http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

As a side note, regionalised domain names offer little if anything from an SEO perspective and in this case they are most likely harming your SEO because of the duplicate content.

My suggestion would be to set up the canonical link on the index page and link it to http://www.davidclick.com/ with the forward slash at the end as when you click through it adds it anyway.

This should sort out the rest of the pages and pass the link juice to that one page.

more info here http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Hope this helps

It isn't possible to change from a root to a subdomain, the only way of doing this is to create a new campaign, you will however start from scratch on the historical data of rankings etc.

I would strongly recommend you keep the campaign set up as is and use 301's to resolve the duplicate issues, as if you don't you rankings are likely to be hurt by duplicate content.

I'm sure you are aware already, but if not, here is the info for setting up 301

For apache
http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm

For Windows
http://thatsit.com.au/seo/tutorials/how-to-fix-canonical-domain-name-issues

As I say, you really should fix this issue as opposed to working around it.

Hi Taysir

i would definitely not recommend transferring the link juice until you have the real urls set up, as this may detract from the links when they go live.

also you could use what is known as a canonical link to transfer this link juice.

you can find out more about using these links here, also helps with duplicate content on your site:-

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

hope this helps

The easiest solution when the products are the same but different sizes is to rel=canonical to one of the sizes from the duplicate pages of differing size options.

The best solution however is to create one page with all sizes on the page, this is a bit more difficult to do as requires some programming, design etc. but it is worth the effort from both an SEO and UX perspective

check out the folloowing article for info on rel=canonical
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization

Hope that helps

Hi Nadejda

Where did the report come from? Is it from the SeoMoz web app or elsewhere?

If it is from the web app, the duplicate content issue often arises when a campaign is set up using a root domain as this will check www.domain.com and also domain.com.

If that is the case you should either 301 from http://domain.com/ to http://www.domain.com/ or alternatively you can set up the rel=canonical tag to solve this.

Also if you haven't done so already set up the primary domain in Google Web Master tools

Info on 301
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Info on rel=canonical
http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/canonicalization 

I hope that helps!

Check out Danny Dover's SEO Cheat Sheet

Its a great resource that covers pretty much all the basics

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet

It may be worth sharing the web address in question and the type of errors SEOMoz is finding.

The Moz community is a thriving place of SEO experts who are very willing to offer advice to help fix your problems, it might be worth a shot as it could save you some dollar and also expand your own knowledge

Yes, there is some truth in what your designer says, adding any additional images and media to a page will slow the load time, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.

My advice to you would be this, if adding a slider to an internal page enhances the user experience (UX) then add it to the page, a well optimised image slider will not impact the load time of a page noticeably to a user.

Once your site is designed, you may want to consider running it through the Google PageSpeed tool, the tool will score your page and generate suggestions to help you make your page faster
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights 

It looks to me as if it is located in the new products panel on the left hand side towards the bottom of the page.

You are effectively linking the page to itself with exact match anchor text "Luxury Bath Pillows with Suction Cups, 4 embroidered designs"

I would assume that is what is causing the problem.